THE: R.ACE: TR.ACK Watc/t Her R1t1Zs Away-To Eartlt at Aq1Jed1Jct-Kerry Patclz Again, \"..H \ .. .èI L\C: \' , ,;í, J '\ .. ..#$ _. 1"" ).!!:Ii tJ / H AVE you ever had a bet you wanted to get out of before a,race, and couldn't? \\T as it on Watch Her, who won at Belmont Park la"t Thursday after running riderless for four miles and a half? I don't re- member a more astonishing incident than that in which Berney Baruch's well-named filly figured so dramati- cally. Most of us were following the gyra- tions at the barrier of the other two- year-olds and congratulating ourselves on getting 11 to 10 against Watch Her when we saw her bolt through the tapes and unseat her jockey . Watch Her! Didn't we, though, while she galloped up and down the Widener Course and around the main track for half an hour! She was always going at a good gait, too, though every little while she'd step a couple of furlongs at a racing pace. One wondered vaguely if she'd ever run down. Obviously she was having a good time-decidedly a better one than her backers. Bob Smith, who had bet a hundred dollars on her, settled; after she had run two miles, for ninety-five and thought it good business. I know how he felt. I had a bet on Helian- thus the day he ran off twice, and was brought back and won. On the lawn, Watch Her was quoted at IOO to I-and no takers. The backers of Miss Merriment looked too pleased for words. \\Then Watch Her had run four and a quarter miles on the track, she whipped through a gap in the hedge and disappeared. I wondered why Max Hirsch, her trainer, did not ask the stewards to withdraw her. After the race, he told me he was so engros d in trying to catch up with his horse that he forgot. Finally, she emerged from among the trees near the. old clubhouse with a mounted policeman holding her bridle. Then she was led back toward the post Surely she was not going to be made to run? This seemed down- right cruelty ! Well, she did run. Watch Her was always in front and go- ing splendidly, won by a length and a half from Miss Merriment, and her time was nearly the fastest at the meet- ing for four and a half furlongs. The most extraordinary part of the whole thing is that the runaway and race \ haven't hurt her a hit. peat, \\T atch Her! I re- W HAT New York racing needs is uniform turn- stile rules. Here we are at Aqueduct, and everybody's had to find his way around all over again. The change from Belmont Park usually brings us to earth, and the serious business of racing, with some- thing of a thud, but the opening last weekend was good fun despite the rain. Kerry Patch won the Queens Coun- ty Handicap, bringing off a 20-to-l chance. Just the sort of thing you'd expect after almost everybody who'd backed him for the Withers and the Metropolitan had given him up in dis- gust. One reason for his change in form was that he ran without blink- ers. Usually, the rogue's badge keeps horses from paying attention to any- thing running beside them, but in the Metropolitan, Kerry Patch tried to bite the other runners-which may have de- tained him. I was surprised that Sation was withdrawn from the Queens County. He seemed well treated at 105 pounds, but Jack Joyner, his trainer, did not choose to run him. I suspect that after the race T ovner was a hit annoyed. C ATERWAUL has come back to the races. He looks awfully well, but he's the narrowest three-year-old I've seen in years. He's so streamline that he won what the program told us was the Carter Handicap with amazing ease. Racegoers are not exactly softies, but those who spoke to me about it resen ted the naming of one of the lesser events after a sweepstakes that has been the pride of Aqueduct since 1895. The race wasn't even at seven furlongs, but at a left-handed sort of distance- about six and a half furlongs. "Thy the "about" nobody seemed to know. 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